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Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa says he's never known a ballplayer so able to keep his eye on the task. "He has this technique that allows him to totally tune out distractions," says LaRussa, who has been McGwire's manager, in Oakland and in St. Louis, for all but 18...
In September, when every game offered the chance for a record, each McGwire at-bat would be accompanied by the gaudy detonation of thousands of flash cameras. "It was blinding," says McKay. "I asked him if it bothered him, and he said, 'I don't see them.'" He didn't...
Sitting at a large conference table, disguised in a button-down shirt and wool pants, his game scowl gone, he doesn't look like that robot. He looks almost unintimidating, like the metarational man he's become. "The one thing I've learned is the mind controls everything," he says...
But McGwire seems more surprised that so many people close to him came, and felt incredible pressure to hit No. 62 quickly, so they weren't traveling with the team for the next two weeks. Partly out of humility and partly to relieve stress, McGwire doesn't talk baseball with...
Pavarotti, 63, celebrated the 30th anniversary of his Met debut last month with a gala performance that showed him to be physically unsteady (he underwent hip- and knee-replacement surgery earlier this year) and vocally worn. As for Domingo, 57, who celebrated his 30th year at the Met in September...